Hard Sun (2018–2018)

TV ShowEndedDrama, Crime, Science-Fiction1 season, 6 episodes
Hard Sun posterReview score: 74%

Plot

Set in contemporary London, Hard Sun centers on detectives Robert Hicks and Elaine Renko, partners and enemies who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction. Hicks is a family man and a great, committed officer. He's also profoundly corrupt. Renko is a difficult and damaged, but utterly incorruptible officer. Thus, the two cops stand on different ends of the social and moral spectrum and also seriously distrust one other – and for good reason. But they must somehow learn to work together if they're going to survive until the end of the world.

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Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Hard Sun S01E03Luke 21.25S01E03 · 9.0A murderer confesses to a priest that he wants to challenge God into revealing Himself by targeting those who help others. Grace makes Hicks an offer.
  2. 02Hard Sun S01E04Can You Hear Him NowS01E04 · 9.0London is under siege as Blackwood's reign of terror escalates, and Father Dennis becomes a public pariah. Hicks deduces where Renko has hidden the Hard Sun flashdrive.
  3. 03Hard Sun S01E05Not The End Of The WorldS01E05 · 9.0The murder of a jogger has dire personal implications for Renko but she pretends it is a routine investigation. Hicks makes a startling revelation about the Alex Butler murder.

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2018Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Hard Sun S01E01The Sun, The Moon, The TruthJanuary 6, 2018 6.8Unruly police detective DCI Charlie Hicks is deeply suspicious of his new partner DI Elaine Renko. But their first investigation exposes a s
  2. S01E02Hard Sun S01E02One Thousand, Eight Hundred DaysJanuary 13, 2018 5.5Renko persuades a newspaper to publish the Hard Sun dossier. The government shuts down the story but the detectives investigate a killer for
  3. S01E03Hard Sun S01E03Season's bestLuke 21.25January 20, 2018 9.0A murderer confesses to a priest that he wants to challenge God into revealing Himself by targeting those who help others. Grace makes Hicks
  4. S01E04Hard Sun S01E04Can You Hear Him NowJanuary 27, 2018 9.0London is under siege as Blackwood's reign of terror escalates, and Father Dennis becomes a public pariah. Hicks deduces where Renko has hid
  5. S01E05Hard Sun S01E05Not The End Of The WorldFebruary 3, 2018 9.0The murder of a jogger has dire personal implications for Renko but she pretends it is a routine investigation. Hicks makes a startling reve
  6. S01E06Hard Sun S01E06Sun DayFebruary 10, 2018 9.0An internet killer is targeting people who believe they wish to die and Mooney thinks he knows how to trap him. Renko and Hicks change tacti

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Castfull cast & details

Jim SturgessJim SturgessDetective Charlie HicksAgyness DeynAgyness DeynDetective Elaine RenkoNikki Amuka-BirdNikki Amuka-BirdGrace MorriganDerek RiddellDerek RiddellDCS Roland BellAisling BeaAisling BeaMari ButlerVarada SethuVarada SethuDS Mishal AliJojo MacariJojo MacariDaniel RenkoOwain ArthurOwain ArthurDS Keith Greener

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